These are the cameras that captured the winning shots in this year’s World Press Photo competition
Feb 22, 2016
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Controversy aside, the World Press Photo Awards gave us an incredible collection of images from photojournalists around the globe. What you see above is an infographic that breaks down the details of what cameras were used to take the winning shots for this year’s contest.
Created by Quesabesde, the infographic was made using EXIF data from the winning photographs in each category. While most of the results follow the trends of previous years, there are a few anomalies in the data.
As tends to be the case almost every year, Canon came out above everyone else, with 28 of the 45 winning photographs being captured on Canon DSLRs. Canon’s 5D Mark III took the top spot with 15 images, while the flagship 1D X came in with 6 winning photos. Nikon followed up Canon with 12 of the 45 winning photographs.

One of the more interesting data points is that a GoPro HERO4 Black was used to capture a winning photograph.
Not so surprisingly, DSLRs appear to still rule the roost when it comes to photojournalism. No fewer than 40 of the winning photos were captured using DSLRs.
Photographer Warren Richardson captured his Photo of the Year, pictured below, on a Canon 5D Mark II using a 24mm f/1.4 at ISO 6400.

Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.




































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